Funding the community
Ron Guillard TPIF hands out $175,000 in grants to 37 organizations around Texas From Staff Reports Texas Pride Impact Funds this week announced the list of 37 organizations chosen to receive funds in its 2022 Community Grant program.
The TPIF board approved recommendations from the foundation’s Grant Action Group on Tuesday, Aug. 9, completing the evaluation process that started June 20 and continuing TPIF’s mission of recognizing organizations and projects working to address current and direct needs of LGBTQ communities around Texas while also working to “correct systemic injustices that unfairly burden people living within these identities and at their intersections,” TPIF officials noted in a statement released Thursday, Aug.
11. Ron Guillard, TPIF’s executive director, noted that the foundation has “surpass[ed] the $1,000,000 milestone in less than four years from our first grant awards in November 2018,” an achievement that proves TPIF’s “mission resounds with a generous community of donors and funders — from across Texas and the nation — who believe in the strategic importance of an LGBTQ+ community foundation for Texas.” Guillard continued, “Equally exciting: We are still in year one of the foundation’s first five-year plan that has all efforts aligned to reach $1,000,000 per year in grantmaking by 2026.
The impact of our grant program on small and mid-size organizations across the state serving historically under-resourced communities has been demonstrated over and over, and we look forward to rolling out more of those stories going forward.” This year’s recipients are: Abilene Pride Alliance ($4,000); allgo in Austin ($3,000); Beyond Brotha ($5,000); Black Ladies in Public Health in Arlington ($3,000);
